The Society of Rural Physicians of Canada (SRPC) is the national voice of Canadian rural physicians. Founded in 1992, the SRPC’s mission is to provide leadership for rural physicians and to promote sustainable conditions and equitable health care for rural communities.

On behalf of its members and the Canadian public, the SRPC performs a wide variety of functions, such as developing and advocating health delivery mechanisms, supporting rural doctors and communities in crisis, promoting and delivering continuing rural medical education,

encouraging and facilitating research into rural health issues, and fostering communication among rural physicians and other groups with an interest in rural health care.

The SRPC is a voluntary professional organization with over 3,000 Members, representing rural physicians in Canada's 5 regional divisions, spanning the country.

The Canadian Journal of Rural Medicine, a publication of the Society of Rural Physicians of Canada, is a peer-reviewed print + online Quarterly journal. The journal's full text is available online at http://www.cjrm.ca. The journal allows free access (Open Access) to its contents and permits authors to self-archive the final accepted version of the article on any OAI-compliant institutional / subject-based repository.

The journal is indexed with, or included in, the following:Emerging Sources Citation Index, MEDLINE/Index Medicus, Web of Science

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Scope of the journal

The journal will cover technical and clinical studies related to health, ethical and social issues in the field of The Rural Medicine has the following objectives: